On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 11:33 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > But actually, I wonder if we need to remove the KVM_BUG_ON(). I think if you > > did > > a KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY and then deleted the memslot you could hit it? > > I think all paths to handle_removed_pt() are safe: > > __tdp_mmu_zap_root > tdp_mmu_zap_root > kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_all > kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all > kvm_flush_shadow_all > kvm_destroy_vm (*) > kvm_mmu_notifier_release (*) > kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots > kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast (**) > kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp > kvm_recover_nx_huge_pages (***) But not all paths to remove_external_spte(): kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot() kvm_mmu_zap_memslot_leafs() kvm_tdp_mmu_unmap_gfn_range() tdp_mmu_zap_leafs() tdp_mmu_iter_set_spte() tdp_mmu_set_spte() remove_external_spte() tdx_sept_remove_private_spte() But we can probably keep the warning if we prevent KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY as you pointed earlier. I didn't see that that kvm->arch.pre_fault_allowed got added.